Robert De Niro, via the Biden campaign, appeared outside the courthouse to call Trump a money-grubber, clown and coward who, if he returns to the White House, will not leave.
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Robert DeNiro calls Trump a coward outside the courthouse: “Do you think Trump ever punched himself? Or got punched? This guy who ran and hid in the White House bunker while there were protesters outside? No way .” pic.twitter.com/2InO1K1bRl
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De Niro said in part:
We New Yorkers tolerated him when he was just another grubby real estate dealer masquerading as a major player. A little playboy who worms his way into the tabloids. Pretending to be a spokesperson, a spokesperson for oneself.
He named it, like himself, for himself. To fool the press and inflate his net worth.
A clown. But this city is quite accommodating. We make room for clowns.
We have them all over the city. People doing crazy things on the street. We tolerate it. It is part of the city. It’s part of the culture. But not someone like Trump who will ultimately rule the country. That doesn’t work and we all know it. Anyway, we make room for clowns, each to his own. But no one takes him or really took him seriously.
They obviously take him seriously now. But across the country, people who didn’t know him, like us, started supporting him. They believed his nonsense.
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And reminds us that he will use violence against anyone who stands in the way of his delusions of grandeur and greed.
But it is a coward’s violence. Do you think Trump ever threw a punch himself? Or taken one? This man who ran and hid in the White House bunker when there were protesters outside? Not really. He doesn’t get any blood on his hands. No he does not. He orders the crowd to do his dirty work by making a suggestion, an inference.
And his gang grovels and follows his obvious command. It is no surprise that homicides and other violent crimes peaked under Trump and are declining under Biden. And now he promises to use our own military to attack American citizens. That’s the tyrant.
That’s the tyrant he tells us he will be. And believe me, he means it. When Trump ran for office in 2016, it was a joke. This buffoon running for president. No, that could never happen. We had forgotten the lessons of history that showed us other clowns who were only taken seriously when they became cruel dictators.
With Trump we have a second chance and no one is laughing now. Now is the time to stop him by voting him out once and for all. We don’t want to wake up after the election word. What again? My God, what the hell have we done? We cannot let that happen again. Yesterday was Remembrance Day. It is a good time to reflect on how Americans fought and died so that we can enjoy the freedoms guaranteed to us by a democratic government, a government that, as President Lincoln said, is of the people, by the people, because the people will not perish. the earth.
Under Trump, this kind of government will disappear from the face of the earth. Not me. No, no, wait. Maybe I want to scare you. When Trump returns to the White House, you can say goodbye to these freedoms that we all take for granted. And elections? Forget it. That’s over. That’s done. If he comes in, I can tell you right now that he will never leave.
He will never go away. You know that. He will never go away.
The biggest evidence supporting the idea that Trump would never leave if he returns to power is in the Republican Party. As soon as Republicans allowed him to run in 2016, Trump began trying to permanently install himself as head of the party, stopping only when he took over the RNC and installed his daughter-in-law in a position of power.
Donald Trump now owns the Republican Party and he’s never going away.
The Republicans will never be able to regain control from him or his family.
It’s good to see the Biden campaign using the platform of Trump’s trial to warn the nation about the threat the ex-president poses to democracy. It was even better to see 1/6 officers flanking DeNiro.
Democracy is being voted on and the Biden campaign is bringing in some big names to remind people what’s at stake in 2024.
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Jason is the editor-in-chief. He is also a White House press pool and congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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